Drawing on documents obtained through the Freedom of Information Act [3], Rolling Stone details the Bush administration [4]'s "ongoing strategy to block federal action on global warming [5]." In 2002, the administration's Climate Action Report was reported on as a "stark shift" in U.S. policy. An alarmed Philip Cooney [6], then at the White House Council on Environmental Quality [7], contacted Myron Ebell [8] of the ExxonMobil [9]-funded think tank [10] the Competitive Enterprise Institute [11]. "We tried to put some qualifiers ... in the report," fretted Cooney. "I know you're in crisis mode [12]," Ebell replied. "I want to help you cool things down, but ... I think that what we can do is limited until there is an official statement from the administration repudiating the report." Bush released a statement the next day. Karl Rove [13] also helped spin the Climate Action Report, writing on a letter drafted by Cooney, "Great ... defends the report rather than staying focused on the policy."